This book follows Archer Read, a 27-year-old aspiring dancer looking for his big break. Unfortunately for him, all his auditions since moving to NY have been a bust. Landing a role in the cabaret at Shady Queens resort in upstate NY for the summer is his last-ditch effort to make it as a dancer before giving up and returning to his hometown in Ohio. As soon as Archer arrives at Shady Queens, he's thrown right into the chaotic life of the dance troupe and has to try to hold it together while dealing with his own drama, along with everyone else's, to keep the show from completely falling apart.

If you're looking for drama, you've come to the right place! This book featured an eclectic cast of characters and an almost summer camp feel as we are thrown in the middle of this dance troupe. There were tricky group politics, lots of partying, lots of hooking up, breaking up, making up, and lots of other chaos that kept the nightly shows at Shady Queens teetering on the edge of failure vs success. I'm not someone who likes drama in my everyday life, but I sure do like reading about other people's drama, and there was plenty to be had here.

The romance was almost secondary to the main story, I thought. Archer is meant to end up with Mateo, the grumpy former Broadway star whom Archer had a teenage crush on and whom he now has to dance with every night. But Archer spends a large portion of the book wrapped up in a (clearly doomed) romance with his bunkmate instead. There were so many little things, though, that showed us that Mateo liked Archer, but Archer was so wrapped up in everything else that he was blind to it. I felt bad for Mateo and wanted to shake some sense into Archer! They finally get there, but it happens so late in the story. There was so much tension between these two throughout, I just wish they actually acted on it a little sooner than they did. 

But all in all, it was a sweet book with lots of dancing and lots of fun drama that kept me pulled in.